Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [noun] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use extended memory , and load smartdrv as the first device driver in CONFIG.SYS after the HIMEM.SYS command line . |
| 2 | Table 2.1 gives additional information about these two broad industrial areas , showing that it is in the retail trade and the hotels and catering industry in the first of these , and public administration , education , medical services , " other services to the public " , recreational and cultural services and personal services in the second , where the proportion of temporary workers is greatest and/or where an important share of the temporary workforce is to be found . |
| 3 | The person chosen to start the game chases after the others and holds hands with the first person caught . |
| 4 | They will also be showered with gifts like top-of-the-range Mercedes cars and luxury apartments if they can spring a World Cup upset and beat England for the first time . |
| 5 | Barclay pulled a pen from his pocket and prodded part of the first plate . |
| 6 | Is not the question more one of how we select and appoint committees in the first place ? |
| 7 | Many of these buildings which survive are in northern France and suffered bombardment in the First World War , but all are well restored to the original design . |
| 8 | When you reach the goal , ask the name of the city and give flowers to the first person you meet . ’ |
| 9 | So , straight away , Terry Nation sat down at his typewriter and began work on the first phase of any TV writing project , the story idea . |
| 10 | Temperate species are slow to accept it ; those that de-hardened and resumed growth at the first sign of spring warming would suffer severe damage in subsequent frosts . |
| 11 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 12 | Special BAYS membership offer — a special combined fee of £4.50 is available for young people who wish to come to BAYSDAY and join BAYS for the first time |
| 13 | On May 17th a partial but telling answer to the first of these questions emerged when US West , one of America 's huge regional Bell telephone companies , said it would pay $1.5 billion for a 25% stake in Time Warner Entertainment ( TWE ) , the cable-TV and film subsidiary of the world 's biggest media conglomerate , whose stars include Mel Gibson ( pictured above ) . |